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The Supreme Court on Monday declined to revive right-wing activist Laura Loomer's racketeering lawsuit against Meta and Twitter, now known as X,...

Winners will be chosen by a panel including Instagram chief Adam Mosseri, filmmaker Spike Lee, designer Marc Jacobs and YouTuber Marques Brownlee.

The US Supreme Court declined a chance to open social media companies to lawsuits over content recommended by their algorithms, turning away an appeal that accused Meta Platforms Inc.’s Facebook of radicalizing a man who killed nine South Carolina churchgoers.

Kuaishou Technology, operator of China’s second-largest short video app, is developing a new international revenue stream with “not-safe-for-work” (NSFW) avatars, as Chinese artificial intelligence firms compete in the lucrative field of virtual companions. Kuaishou formally launched its AI companion service, FantaSay, through its Singapore unit, Symphony Tech, last month, after a trial run that began in February. The service promises an “ultimate immersive chat experience” with a “variety of...

TikTok shared a trove of data about Indonesian users’ online activity with the country’s government over the weekend, handing over potentially sensitive information to avert a license suspension in its biggest Southeast Asian market.

Why it matters: China is no longer just a massive domestic market, given how its platforms are shaping the future of global ad formats and retail...

Indonesia revoked a suspension on TikTok’s local operating license after the social media platform shared data requested by the government.

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... Facebook page. He said, without providing evidence, that some politicians were plotting to take advantage of the protests and had considered...

TikTok said it is working with Indonesian authorities to resolve a dispute that led to the suspension of its local operating license, after the company declined to fully share data on its live streaming activity during nationwide protests in August.

With the launch of Sora 2, OpenAI has opened a new chapter in addictive, and some worry dangerous, AI video content.

NBC News tech contributor Joanna Stern joins Gadi Schwartz to preview the new app that is at the intersection of social media and artificial...

Meta debuted Business AI digital assistant for companies to offer to their customers more personalized product recommendations via chat interactions.

A Dutch court on Thursday ordered Meta Platforms to provide Facebook and Instagram users with simpler options for a timeline that does not rely on...

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Welcome to Tech In Depth, our daily newsletter about the business of tech from Bloomberg’s journalists around the world. Today, Riley Griffin reports on Meta Platforms Inc.’s decision to use conversations with its AI chatbot to help present people with targeted advertisements.

Anthropic also claims that Claude Sonnet 4.5 is its most aligned frontier AI model yet, with lower rates of sycophancy and deception than previous...

Facebook owner Meta Platforms convinced a federal judge in San Francisco to throw out a lawsuit that accused the company of misleading users about...

Meta will show ads and other content to users based on their interactions with the Meta AI digital assistant and other generative artificial intelligence tools.

Meta Platforms Inc. will soon start using interactions with its AI chatbot to more effectively tailor the content and advertising that people see on Facebook and Instagram.

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... with the matter told Reuters on Tuesday, as the social media company looks to bolster its in-house semiconductor efforts.

OpenAI is releasing a standalone social app for making and sharing AI-generated videos with friends, an attempt to supercharge adoption for the emerging technology just as ChatGPT did for chatbots three years ago.The free Sora app, available Tuesday by invitation, is powered by a new version of OpenAI’s video-making software of the same name. As with the original Sora, released last December, users can generate short clips in response to text prompts, but the new app allows people to see videos

Meta Platforms Inc. is acquiring chips startup Rivos Inc., according to a person familiar with the deal, part of an effort to bolster its internal semiconductor development and control more of its infrastructure for artificial intelligence work.

Alphabet Inc.'s Google agreed to pay $24.5 million to resolve Donald Trump's claims that being blocked from posting on his YouTube channel after...

Alphabet-owned YouTube has agreed to pay $24.5 million to settle a lawsuit that U.S. President Donald Trump brought against the company over the...

Google joins X and Meta in paying the president millions of dollars to settle lawsuits.

YouTube has agreed to pay $24.5 million to settle a lawsuit involving the suspension of President Donald Trump's account in 2021.

YouTube is the latest social media company to pay Trump tens of millions of dollars to resolve lawsuits brought before he returned to power. The money will fund a new ballroom at the White House.

After four extensions of the statutory deadline to ban TikTok or force its Chinese owners to divest, US President Donald Trump has now signed an executive order transferring the app to US ownership. The announcement follows years of diplomatic sparring, bureaucratic manoeuvring, repeated efforts by federal and state governments to curtail the platform and even a ruling from the US Supreme Court. Has the fate of America’s most viral social media app finally been decided? Those expecting closure...